The turkey has been picked clean, the leftovers are gone and only crumbs remain in your cookie tins.

The season for eating has most definitely ended. But in the New Year, a hearty brunch may beckon friends who want to rehash last year’s festivities.

Perhaps you will choose to meet up at Cora’s. With its generous servings of fresh fruit, it almost seems to fit with New Year’s resolutions.

The popular breakfast spot boasts an extensive menu of morning meals, from custard-topped waffles to creamy oatmeal. Two years ago, The Dish examined one of Cora’s more requested entrees, The 1990s Harvest.

That breakfast included two pieces of French toast made with brioche, a scrambled egg, three pieces of bacon and a mound of fresh fruit.

The lab results revealed it contained 1,320 calories and 46 grams of fat, making it resemble a breakfast buffet on a plate. It was a surprise to several readers who assumed the fruit rendered it a healthier choice.

Since last checking in with Cora’s, we would have liked to see the ever-expanding chain — there are currently 131 locations in Canada — provide its diners with nutrition numbers. We bet that many of Cora’s offerings are less healthy than they seem.

This time around The Dish sent the Sunshine Panini Crepe to the lab to find out its nutrition content.

At two separate locations, a friendly server called it a perennial favourite.

It’s easy to see why: the meal provides a taste of everything. A crepe is rolled up with fried egg and ham, then grilled and served with a mountain of fresh fruit.

With 838 calories and 27 grams of fat, the plate is packed with calories.

And with its 1,236 mg of sodium — about 300 mg shy of your body’s daily needs — you may want to consider getting the crepe without the ham to cut back on the salt.

But, along with most of the restaurant’s offerings, the meal gets points for providing fruit as the side, not fried potatoes and butter-smeared toast. And double points for the wide selection — grapes, strawberries, nectarine, kiwi, melon and pineapple — instead of the obligatory orange and cantaloupe slice.

Just note that this “mountain” of fresh fruit counts for at least four Canada food guide servings and is one of the reasons for the 838 calories found in this entrée. That’s a lot of calories to ingest before noon.

Yet it packs less of a caloric wallop than the 1990s Harvest, and has fewer calories and less fat than some fast food breakfast combos.

At Tim Hortons, for example, a bagel sandwich with sausage, egg, cheese, lettuce and tomato, served with a hash brown and a medium double-double with cream has 870 calories and 42 grams of fat.

Rather than prove Cora’s is a healthy breakfast option, this fact just shows how easy it is to rack up calories before lunch.

It’s probably best to make the Panini-crepe a true brunch — counting as both breakfast and lunch — rather than one of your three daily meals. That way you won’t have to eat too lean the remainder of the day.

That’s two ways to make this breakfast fit with resolutions to eat well in the New Year.

Now, wouldn’t it be nice if Cora’s resolution for 2013 was to provide nutrition numbers for her diners?

VERDICT: Make this hefty meal count for both breakfast and lunch.

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